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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
we're not kids anymore.
trying on a metaphor
Sweet Seals For You, Always
RMH
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
macklin celebrini has autism
ellievsbear
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roma★
noise dept.
Mike Driver
KIROKAZE
d e v o n
Kaledo Art
almost home
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seen from South Korea
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How To Find A Treasure Trove of Audiobooks on Playster
Oh my God, you guys. If people knew about Playster, the media subscription service with an audiobook-only option, then Audible would see their customers defect in droves. Playster is quite the secretive little company, and book lovers on budgets need to know about it.
Playster offers a one month free trial, which actually didn’t impress me that much… because I didn’t know how to find the good…
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AUDIBLE VS PLAYSTER
First, a few words on amazon…
Amazon is taking over the world, and it’s clearly scary. Some of my misgivings are obvious. I mean, when one, single company begins to rule one market after another, morphing the face of the economy as we know it… it’s creepy. You hope these market monoliths will be gentle leaders, like Galadriel, who fights her temptation to be a Dark Queen on a daily basis. But…
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Discussion of Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green
Discussion of Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green
!!! W A R N I N G : C O N T A I N S S P O I L E R S !!!
A Synopsis and Summary of Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes is a teenage girl living with one hell of an anxiety disorder. Aza is obsessed with and terrified by the human microbiota — the host of trillions of microorganisms that make up at least half, if not more, of the human body’s mass.
The human microbiota is discomfiting, for…
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Movie Review » Florence Foster Jenkins
To Begin, I Was Brought Low
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was visiting my sister a while back and during the stay, I found myself talking at her about my love of opera. “It would be great someday to take lessons!” I gushed, after caroling a few bars of O Mio Babino Caro, self-indulgently.
Seemingly out of nowhere, she whipped to me and said, “Oh my God, have you ever heard of Florence Foster Jenkins?” she…
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Started reading, but ended up napping. Ah vacation ❤️❤️❤️ thanks to @racheltowardtheworld for loaning it to me! . . . #puremichigan #sleepingbeardunes #beach #bookstagram #book #bookworm #arc #allthecrookedsaints #maggiestiefvater #travel #beachlife #beachday #dune #books #reading #currentlyreading #bookblogger #booklover #booklove #sand (at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore)
Quest Reviews Went To Empire, Michigan
Quest Reviews Went To Empire, Michigan
Ellen: Surprise, readers! Sierra and I are on vacation. Together! (Along with Karan, Sierra’s German Shepherd, and four foster kittens.) It was a packed car. But once we made it to Nancy’s Garden Home, our Airbnb, it was all worth it.
Sierra: I convinced Ellen to visit my favorite place in Michigan — the Sleeping Bear Dunes. I used to come here every year to camp with my dojo friends.
Ellen:Wha…
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My babies (Chomper and Petrie) have been driving me crazy 😅. Ah the life of a foster mama... . . . #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #catsagram #cats_of_instagram #catsofinsta #kitten #kittens #kittensofinstagram #hshv #adoptdontshop #blueeyes #catlady #catlove #catlover #catlovers #kitty #tinylions (at Empire, Michigan)
Road trippin' with these goofballs 😍 . . . #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catsagram #kitten #kittens #kittensofinstagram #roadtrip #catlady #catlover #catlove #catlovers #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagram #doggo #doglover #doglife #dogsofig #dogsofinsta #germanshepherd #gsd #gsdofinstagram
Road trippin' with these goofballs 😍 . . . #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #catsagram #catsofinsta #catsagram #kitten #kittens #kittensofinstagram #fosterkittens #roadtrip #puremichigan #catlady #catlove #catlover #catlover #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagram #dogsofinsta #dogs_of_instagram #doggie #doggo #doglover #doglove #doglovers #dogslife #blackdog #germanshepherd #germanshepherdsofinstagram #gsd #gsdofinstagram #bloodymary #mimosa
Road trippin' with these goofballs 😍 . . . #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catsagram #kitten #kittens #kittensofinstagram #fosterkittens #roadtrip #catlady #catlife #catlove #catlover #catlovers #dog #dogs #dogsofinstagram #doglife #doggo #doglovers #doglife #dogsofinsta #dogslife #blackdog #germanshepherd #germanshepherdsofinstagram #gsd #gsdofinstagram #bloodymary #mimosa #blogger #bloggers #questreviews #bookblogger
When she's pretty and she knows it 😻 . . . #cat #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catsagram #catlady #catlover #catlovers #catlove #catlife #blackcat #blackcatsofinstagram #blackcats #blackcatsrule #greeneyes #tattoo #tattoos #tatt #birdtattoo #sistertattoos #adoptdontshop #hshvalum (at Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Thoughts on the YA Twitter Exposé and Bad Dialogue
Thoughts on the YA Twitter Exposé and Bad Dialogue
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]esterday, “YA Twitter” started trending. This little corner of the Twitter universe, devoted to the news and promotion of YA literature, was spinning with distress. Vulture.com, an entertainment news outlet, had published an article by Kat Rosenfield that threw the virtue of this book-obsessed hive mind into question. The biggest line from the piece?
“I have never seen social…
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A Meal of Blood, A Meal of Bones » Thoughts During My Second Week of Veganism
A Meal of Blood, A Meal of Bones » Thoughts During My Second Week of Veganism
My body looks like a melted candle
My goal in going vegan wasn’t to lose weight, but it’s happening. I’m not sure how many pounds I’ve shed so far, because I don’t own a scale. I do know that pre-veganism, I fluctuated between 157 and 147 pounds. For my height, this is an “overweight” BMI.
In college, I averaged 120 — a “normal” weight for my height. Before that, my lowest point (in every sense…
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Real Quest » Thoughts During My First Week of Veganism
Real Quest » Thoughts During My First Week of Veganism
/I’m going to cut someone if I don’t have some coffee/
I know you’re thinking… Ellen. Coffee is vegan. Why did you try to give that up, too?
What can I say, but it was three days of foolishness? The book I was using to help me transition was DL anti-pharmaceuticals/stimulants/depressants, and they had a large chunk of the book devoted to shaming coffee addicts. I was throwing out so much of my…
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BookTube-A-Thon 2017 » Making Monsters and Going Vegan I've never been good with people telling me what to do. In any capacity. Even with a thing as innocuous as a BookTube-A-Thon.
Ellen's Book-Tube-A-Thon 2017 TBR
Ellen’s Book-Tube-A-Thon 2017 TBR
I had so much fun making this video. In fact, it’s the most fun I’ve had making a video ever.
Ellen’s book-tube-a-thon 2017 tbr
I think I’m going to enjoy this year’s challenges. They are…
Read a book with a person on the cover.
Read a book you picked up because of the cover.
Read a hyped book.
Read a book with a main character very different from you.
Read a book outside.
Read a book inside one…
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Discussion of Kulti, by Mariana Zapata
Discussion of Kulti, by Mariana Zapata
C O N T A I N S S P O I L E R S !!!
Welcome to our new discussion feature! We’ve realized that sometimes a review isn’t enough. More and more, we want to share our thoughts using actual textual examples… AKA ‘SPOILERS.’ It is, of course, rude to give away too much in book reviews, although it is a delicate line to walk. You don’t want a review to have no examples, but you can’t push it too…
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